Mayor Mike Rawlings, the eighth vote in their coalition, wasn’t willing to go that far.

“I told them that I was not in favor of revisiting” the initial vote, Rawlings said this afternoon. “Any action that we would have taken as a City Council, pulling judges off and putting other judges in, would have been illegal by state law. After reviewing this with the city attorney, once we have judges in there, they stay in there for two years except for with cause, or unless they try to run for office.”